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1st, Economy dictates, compressing within a compact 

 small extent, and preserving every thing which can be retained 

 without alteration, however little it may be wort h preserving : 

 but as I prefer the old site of the house to any other in 1 lie Park, 

 I see no occasion to take down for the sake of rebuilding. 



. Convenience 



requires a certain number of rooms, of 



certain dimensions : and it will 



found that 



lose proposed 



are am 



in size, varied in f< 



dundance 



Th 



e 



dini 



ng 



nd connected without waste 

 is detached from the draw- 



ing-room, which does away the objection of two 



adj 



diately 



oining rooms, where conversation in either may be over- 



heard 



Th 



e drawing-room, which in a house of this date 



was 



called the parlour, may be fitted up with books, musical instru- 

 ments, and card tables, to render it the general living room for 

 the family, according to the modern habits of life, which explode 



the old absurd fashion of shutting up 



large 



omfortl 



to starve the occasional visitors by damp sophas and bright steel 

 grates. These two rooms, and the study, may be fifteen feet 

 high : the approach to them by the passages and staircase will 

 be sufficiently ample, without the extravagance of a large and 

 lofty hall, to which much was sacrificed in old houses, because 

 it was used as the dining-room on great occasions.* 



tended rather for ornament than use, such as lofty Towers in Gothic, and Columns 

 in Grecian Architecture. 



After this house was built, an alteration was made, in conformity to my ori- 

 ginal wishes ; that the entrance Lobby should be changed to an Anti-room ; and the 

 real entrance made in the cloisters or passage connecting the old and new buildings. 







